Letter: It’s time to state the obvious about President Obama

Barack Obama campaigned for the presidency in 2008 with the slogan, “Change We Can Believe In” and promised an open government and “the most transparent administration in history.”

Unfortunately, since assuming office, I have only seen an ever-expansive and closed government, often bringing about change against popular opinion. Scandals abound with no accountability and no answers. The attorney general, Eric Holder, is supposed to investigate himself regarding his decisions in “Fast and Furious.”

As for Benghazi, the White House seems to be happy with Hillary Clinton’s answer: “What does it matter now?” We are now being led to believe that two years’ worth of emails from key witness Lois Lerner in the IRS tea party targeting scandal is “missing.”

Hans Christian Andersen wrote a short story — now translated into more than 100 languages — about two weavers who promised to make a new suit for the emperor. This suit, however, would be invisible to anyone unfit for their position in life, stupid or incompetent. As the emperor strutted around his court naked, it finally took a child to say what everyone could plainly see, which was that the emperor was, in fact, naked.

Is it not time for us to state the obvious? Obama and this administration are in way over their heads — or do they think that it is us who are unfit for our position in life, stupid and incompetent?

— David Cheng, Rockford

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